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296
”If we were having breakfast“:
author interview with Joe Schoendorf, May 10, 2007.

297
I put America’s Home Videos ”:
author interview with Robert Iger, May 17, 2007.

297
“Sometimes you have to guess”:
author interview with Bill Campbell, October 18, 2007.

297
“The world is moving”:
author interview with Barry Diller, January 10, 2008.

297
consumers “will happily go along”:
author interview with Irwin Gotlieb, June 2, 2008.

297
Yossi Vardi, the Israeli entrepreneur:
author interview with Yossi Vardi, February 28, 2008.

298
Free an “inevitability”:
Chris Anderson,
Free: The Future of a Radical Price,
Hyperion, 2009.

298
This is the answer:
Jeff Jarvis, What Would
Google
Do?, HarperCollins, 2009.

298
“more than 1 billion clicks”:
testimony of Marissa Mayer to hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, May 6, 2009.

298
total U.S. ad spending:
Myers Advertising and Marketing Investment Insights.

299
Newspaper ad revenues:
Zenith Optimedia, March 2009.

299
“Even Wired Editor”:
Chris Anderson,
Free: The Future of a Radical Price,
Hyperion, 2009.

299
In a February 2009 Time cover story:
Walter Isaacson, “How to Save Newspapers,”
Time,
February 16, 2009.

299
The warning was given life:
Nat Ives, “Time Inc. Helps Out Future of 3-D,”
Advertising Age,
March 13, 2009.

300
page one of the Los Angeles Times :
Stephanie Clifford, “Front of Los Angeles Times Has an NBC Article,”’
New York Times,
April 10, 2009.

301
“Wrestling had bigger audiences”:
author interview with Robert Pittman, February 29, 2008.

301
“I think people are getting”:
author interview with Marc Andreessen, June 9, 2008.

301
Each of the 40,000:
author interview with Scott Heiferman, January 25, 2008.

301
“one quarter of CBS‘s”:
author interview with Quincy Smith, September 16, 2008.

302
The online dating service:
author interview with Barry Diller, March 3, 2009.

302
Mary Meeker predicts:
author interview with Mary Meeker, January 23, 2009.

302
By mid-2008 China:
“China’s Internet Cafes Still Crucial to Online Game Growth,”
VentureBeat.com
, August 17, 2008.

302
“PiperJaffray projected”:
Matt Richtel and Bob Tedeschi in the
New York Times,
April 6, 2009.

302
“we want to get credit card numbers”:
author interview with MarcAndreessen, March 27, 2008.

302
“the stealth device”:
author interview with Ivan Seidenberg, October 30, 2008.

302
“social network traffic”:
author interview with Eric Schmidt, June 11, 2008.

303
“We made one really big mistake”:
author interview with Dr. John Hennessy June 9, 2008.

303
“A lot of people believe that”:
author interview with Eric Schmidt, September 15, 2008.

303
“my current view of the world”:
author interview with Eric Schmidt, April 1, 2009.

303
“newspaper ad dollars”:
from the Web site of the Newspaper Association of America.

304
Many students clamor: e-mail
exchange with Ernest Sotomayor, December 7, 2008.

304
“many of our students”:
e-mail exchange with Nicholas Lemann, September 4, 2008.

304
“take the New York Times”:
financial data from Ken Auletta, “The Inheritance: Can Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Save the
Times
—and Himself?,”
New Yorker,
December 19, 2005.

305
“the kinds of stories”:
author interview with Larry Page, March 25, 2008.

305
During the wrenching transition to print:
Clay Shirky blog, March 13, 2009.

306
“Sell it!”:
author interview with Marc Andreessen, June 9, 2008.

307
more than a few papers “will disappear”:
Rupert Murdoch speech at the D Conference attended by author, May 28, 2008.

307
He wrote that newspapers:
Michael Hirschorn, “Get Me Rewrite!”
Atlantic
Monthly,
December 2006.

309
“Apple’s iTunes”:
author interview with Eric Schmidt, October 8, 2007.

309
“for newspaper companies”:
author interview with Andrew Lippman, February 10, 2009.

309
“Can you put it behind a wall”:
author interview with Marc Andreessen, February 20, 2009.

310
Attorney General Eric Holder:
Randall Mikkelsen, “U.S. Law Chief Open to Antitrust Aid for Newspapers,” Reuters, March 18, 2009.

310
In 2009, three longtime media executives:
Richard Perez-Pena, “Plans for a Paid Online Media Service,”
New York Times,
April 15, 2009.

310
an online publication:
Jack Shafer, “Hello, Steve Brill, Get Me Rewrite,”
Slate.com
,
April 17, 2009.

310
“I don’t know how”:
author interview with Larry Page, March 25, 2008.

311
“We’ve been able”:
author interview with Eric Schmidt, March 26, 2008.

311
income from digital operations:New
York Times Co. financial disclosure for the year ending December 31, 2008.

311
About half of the About Group’s revenues:
two author e-mail exchanges with Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., April 29, 2009.

311
“The official answer”:
author interviews with Eric Schmidt, March 26, 2008 and April 1, 2009.

312
“Our industry faces”:
author e-mail exchange with Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., April 29, 2009.

313
10 percent of these were downloaded:
author interview with Jeff Bezos, July 9, 2008. When I sought to update this number, Bezos’s deputy Craig Berman, reported in a May 2009 e-mail that it had grown to 35 percent.

313
What gives publishers pause:
Motoko Rich, “Preparing to Sell E-Books, Google Takes on Amazon,”
New York Times,
June 1, 2009.

313
“Physical books”:
Jeff Bezos interviewed at the D Conference attended by author, May 28, 2008, and interview with author, July 9, 2008.

314
nightly audience has plunged:
nightly news audience decline from Richard Perez-Pena, New York Times, May 11, 2009.

314
Jack Myers projects:
Myers Advertising and Marketing Investment Insights, March 10, 2009.

315
Neilson reported in early 2009:
Nielsen report on fourth quarter 2008 television and Internet video cited in the
Wall Street Journal,
February 23, 2009.

315
If four million:
Bobbie Kotick interviewed at D Conference attended by author, May 28, 2008.

315
“To survive”:
author interviews with Quincy Smith, January 23, 2008, and April 9, 2008, May 19 and 25, 2009, and with Les Moonves, July 8, 2009.

316
The biggest box office :
Brian Stelter and Brad Stone, “Digital Pirates Winning Battle with Major Hollywood Studios,”
New York Times,
February 5, 2009.

316
Sergey Brin described going on a boat in Europe:
author interview with Sergey Brin, March 26, 2008.

317
So they initiated efforts:
Sam Schechner and Vishesh Kumar, “Cable Firms Look to Offer TV Programs Online,”
Wall Street Journal,
February 20, 2009, and interviews with senior television executives.

317
Eric Schmidt saw a demonstration:
author interview with Eric Schmidt, April 1, 2009, and
Sezmi.com
.

318
“We can go directly”:
author interview with Ivan Seidenberg, October 30, 2008.

319
Irwin Gotlieb also dismisses:
author interview with Irwin Gotlieb, February 9, 2009.

321
“Do you feel bad”:
author interview with Eric Schmidt, March 26, 2008.

322
“When asked to describe the difference”:
author interview with Eileen Naughton, February 28, 2008.

322
“If you can solve search”:
author interview with Larry Page available on YouTube, May 1, 2002.

323
“we scale”:
author interview with Sergey Brin, March 26, 2008.

323
uploading eighty-six thousand full length movies:
“Letter from the Founders,” Google 2008 annual report, April 2009.

323
“Everything Google does”:
Bala Lyer and Thomas H. Davenport, “Reverse Engineering Google’s Innovation Machine,”
Harvard Business Review,
April 2008.

324
Its social network site:
author interviews with Google executives in Russia, Jason Bush, “Where Google Isn’t Goliath,”
BusinessWeek,
June 26, 2008.

324
“These companies air kiss”:
author interview with Andrew Lack, October 4, 2007.

324
Facebook had 200 million users:
author interview with Sheryl Sandberg, March 30, 2009.

324
“Anybody that gets”:
author interview with Bill Campbell, October 8, 2007.

325
Lee began with :
author interview with Kwan Lee, February 10, 2009.

325
“lacks a social gene”:
author interview with John Borthwick, April 28, 2008.

326
“If I were Google”:
author interview with Danny Sullivan, August 27, 2007.

326
The problem with horizontal search:
author interview with Jason Calacanus, September 21, 2007.

327
“the semantic web”:
Katie Franklin, “Google May Be Displaced, Said World Wide Web Creator Tim Berners-Lee”,
Daily Telegraph,
March 3, 2008.

327
“hundreds of years away”:
author interview with Craig Silverstein, September 17, 2007.

327
“We are no closer”:
author interview with Marc Andreessen, March 27, 2008.

327
In his provocative book:
Nicholas Carr,
The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison
to
Google,
W. W. Norton & Company, 2008.

328
“this was the thrust”:
Neil Postman,
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse
in
the Age of Show Business,
Viking Penguin, 1985.

328
Tara Brabazon, a professor:
accounts of Professor Brabazon address in both the
Economic Times
and the
Telegraph,
January 14, 2008.

329 Miguel Helft of the
New York Times
wrote a series of stories in April 2009 on challenges to Google’s book settlement; amicus briefs were filed with U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin on April 13 and 17, 2009.

330 Miguel Heft, “YouTube Blocked in China, Google Says,”
New York Times,
March 25, 2009.

330
“China ordered PC makers”:
“U.S. Makes Official Complaint to China over Internet Censorship,”
Financial Times,
June 22, 2009.

331
“What Google should fear”:
author interview with Yossi Vardi, February 28, 2008.

331
When Marissa Mayer said:
author interview with Mayer, August 21, 2007.

331
“What separates us”:
author interview with Stacey Savides Sullivan, August 21, 2007.

331
“are utopians”:
author interview with Terry Winograd, September 25, 2007.

332
In the 1990s:
an excellent exploration of long-term capital’s demise is contained in Roger Lowenstein’s
When Genuis Failed: The Rise and Fall of f Long-Term Capital Management,
Random House, 2000.

332
“’Google returned links”:
Nat Ives, “Media Giants Want to Top Google Results,”
Advertising Age,
March 23, 2009.

333
when Eric Schmidt envisioned:
Miguel Heft, “Google Ends Its Project for Selling Radio Ads,”
New York Times,
February 13, 2009.

333
“They have no experience”:
author interview with Danny Sullivan, March 20, 2008.

333
“a great company”:
author interview with Fred Wilson, January 22, 2008.

333
“Google is like that fourteen-year-old”:
author interview with Strauss Zelnick, January 9, 2008.

334
Although Mary Meeker believes Google is a great company:
author interview with Mary Meeker, January 23, 2009.

334
“There is nothing about their model”:
author interview with Clayton Christensen, April 17, 2009.

335
“There is no end in sight”:
author interview with Fred Wilson, January 22, 2008.

335
“to the falsehood that you can grow”:
author interview with Clayton Christensen, April 17, 2009.